My new hobby

eelgrass · Jun 11, 2011

I've been taking care of mom's lawn since dad passed away. She is always trying to pay me but I won't take it. To make her feel better I asked her if I could borrow dad's little 10" bandsaw. She insisted I take it home, so I did.

I've been off work for the last 6 weeks so I decided to tinker around a bit. My mom and wife both love birds so I put a couple projects together. I ended up enjoying doing it. My first time ever carving or painting.

I tried to keep it light hearted and simple, otherwise it wouldn't be fun. If you'll notice, I even made up my own birds and paint colors on some of them.

Plus my mom amd wife have to say they like them.

Just a bandsaw, a dremel tool, and $7 for an acrylic paint set.

I mean, an old man has to do something, right?

Eel

slickrock · Jun 11, 2011

Very-Very nice Ell. Your Mom must be like a 115 years old!

Slick

"The Road goes on forever & the Party never Ends"

Zigga · Jun 11, 2011

I never thought I'd say this Eel but....nice pecker!

My father in law retired and took up carving duck decoys. I hope I live long enough to get a hobby

B_BOP_A_LU_LU · Jun 11, 2011

Thought it woulda been a bunch of Tortises?

For GAWDS Sakes Guys,We Got Kids on this Site,Some of them are 65 years Old!

I don't care if they're big or small!
If they throw lead I like em all!

grizzlyplumber · Jun 11, 2011

This is what happens when they cut down the quota on turtle season.

BuckSnort · Jun 11, 2011

Very cool Eel... If I tried that I would have a damn ugly carving and about 6 fingers..

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tageater · Jun 11, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Jun-11-11 AT 09:54PM (MST)[p]I bet you could sell those for $200 to some tree hugger!

*edit- but besides the joke, very nice work!

I've wanted to do some painted carvings for each river I've fished. I've picked up drift wood from each, and would like to Dremmel out the species that I caught there, and mount them on the drift wood. Guess I just need to do it!

RELH · Jun 11, 2011

Eel you old fart, you do have some artistic talent in you. Now when are you going to give up your honey holes for hunting?????

RELH

tageater · Jun 11, 2011

RELH, for $20 he'll give up any of his holes,(honey or not!)

eldorado · Jun 11, 2011

Very nice Eel. A lot of time and effort clearly went into your projects. Thanks for sharing.

Eldorado

goatroper · Jun 11, 2011

awwwwwh how sweet!!
some of you guys clearly have your
minds in the gutter...--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

one day a little boy was praying,
his dad walked past his bedroom and stop to listen to him,
the little boy said "thankyou for mumy, thankyou for dady, thankyou for grandma, ta ta grandpa"
the next morning the famaly wakes up do discover that there grandpa id dead.
the next night the boy starts praying again,
his dad walked past his bedroom and stop to listen to him,
the little boy said "thankyou for mumy, thankyou for dady,ta ta grandma"
the next morning the dad wakes up and finds the grandma dead on the kichen floor,
the next night the boy starts praying again,
his dad walked past his bedroom and stop to listen to him,
the little boy said "thankyou for mumy, ta ta dady"
the dad get scared and decides to go to the doctor and the doctor says his got nothing to worry about.
the dad decides to walk home,
when he gets home he finds the postman dead on the floor.

gail

1911 · Jun 11, 2011

This is still your best work yet.

eelgrass · Jun 12, 2011

tageater, you should try it. It'a a lot easier than fly fishing.

goatroper, you should hang out here more often, you'd fit right in.LOL

RELH, I'm thinking seriously of giving you the location of my honeyhole. It could use a good kerosene forest fire.

Eel

overton · Jun 12, 2011

Looks alot more fun than hunting PWI blacktails...plick.

eelgrass · Jun 12, 2011

overton, piper said that flying to Alaska would create too big a carbon footprint and billions of people would die, so not going is the right thing to do.

Eel

overton · Jun 12, 2011

We could have taken my sailboat...

Feleno · Jun 12, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Jun-12-11 AT 02:00PM (MST)[p]Eel you are a chirp off the ol block. Nice work, I didn't know you were into tweeting.

crazeymaez · Jun 12, 2011

Looks like one of my last parties.Way to many peckers for one bush.

rugarm77 · Jun 12, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Jun-12-11 AT 05:40PM (MST)[p]eel looks very nice! How much time did you spend on it?

Foundation wanted to know if you can make him a Pink Flamingo?

goatroper · Jun 12, 2011

How about Spotted Owl decoys?

GR

2lumpy · Jun 12, 2011

LAST EDITED ON Jun-12-11 AT 08:40PM (MST)[p]Eel, that stand is a work art, no doubt. What brand of feed are you putting out to get all those birds to come in?

DC

CAelknuts · Jun 12, 2011

That's really nice Eel. Well done sir.

sageadvice · Jun 12, 2011

Pretty Cool Eelgrass! I know i couldn't do that well, not at all!!

...and them birds don't eat much!

joey

eelgrass · Jun 13, 2011

Thanks guys. It was fun to do and I'm going to do something a little different next time.

Rug, I didn't keep track of time but generally I carved 3-5 birds a day, never more than an hour at a time. I stayed out in the shop longer if my wife was home.

Then I had to go back inside to watch the Giants, or take a nap. Kind of like being retired like Kilowatt. lol

I'm back to work now so it may be awhile 'till my next project.

I tried to carve a mule deer rack out of a single piece of wood, but dang that's hard to do.

Eel